[Python-Dev] Proposed schedule for Python 3.4 (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Wed Oct 3 19:02:07 CEST 2012

On 3 October 2012 17:34, R. David Murray <rdmurray at bitdance.com> wrote:

There were bug reports during the alpha phase. A number of regressions were caught. Also, there were more alpha-phase bug reports than I remember getting for 3.2. I remember thinking, "wow, cool, we're actually getting regression bug reports during the alpha phase, people must actually be testing this time".

One possibly-relevant point is that I caught some bugs in packaging that could only be properly investigated from an installer-based build. The source build layout on Windows is different, and it mattered to packaging. (Arguably, that itself was a bug in packaging, and it shouldn't have mattered, but nevertheless). As far as I can tell, it is not possible (in any practical sense) to create a production-layout install on Windows without building the MSIs (which definitely takes installing extra tools and things to complete - more than I ever managed to do successfully).

Paul.

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